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Publishing News

Audio Book Growth

April 6, 2025 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

For 12 consecutive years, audio books have seen double-digit growth. No other book format can make that claim. But why should we, as writers and readers, care about audio book growth?

Putting audio book growth in perspective

Before we look …

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Entrances and Exits

August 11, 2024 //  by Janet Grant//  29 Comments

Change keeps reminding us that it’s a constant in our lives. From the weather to our clothes to the television channel, stability is hard to come by. That’s true for our agency as well. Today, I have two changes–entrances and …

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What’s new in the ever-changing world of AI?

June 30, 2024 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

Keeping up with developments in the world of AI is challenging. Once ChatGPT released, I read every article I could find. But the sheer volume did me in. So I’ve curated a few articles I found especially elucidating and provided …

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Bookstore Good News

February 25, 2024 //  by Janet Grant//  10 Comments

Last week Parable Group, which is a consortium of independently-owned Christian bookstores throughout the United States, released their report, “2024 State  of Christian Retail.” As I studied the results of their survey of booksellers, I saw lots of bookstore …

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AI and Publishing’s Future

February 12, 2023 //  by Janet Grant//  34 Comments

About a month ago, one of my daughters, who works for an online security company, startled me by the question she posed, “What is publishing doing to prepare for people who use AI to write books?”

I hadn’t paid much …

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Bookshop.org: An Online Alternative to Amazon

September 8, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  7 Comments

Bookshop.org’s founder and CEO, Andy Hunter, could be viewed as prescient. The bookstore site launched in January 2020, just before COVID forced physical stores to lock their doors. Before Amazon downgraded the priority of shipping books and upped the priority …

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A Social Media Platform that REALLY Sells Books: TikTok

July 28, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  14 Comments

I need to start out by apologizing. I know writers are weary of being told to build their platforms, to promote their books on social media, to, well, work magic at something most don’t particularly enjoy. I’m one of those …

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How Readers Discover Books

March 3, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

One of the biggest challenges for an author, a publisher AND readers consists of the increasing difficulty of matching a wannabe reader with the type of book he or she is looking to buy. A new survey recently was conducted …

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Introducing a New Literary Agent

January 6, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

With the entrance of 2021, Books & Such is adding a gem of a new literary agent to our roster, Mary DeMuth. Mary has been a part of the Christian publishing industry for decades, having written 40 books, both fiction …

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Literary Agent Barb Roose

Introducing New Agent Barb Roose

August 30, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  49 Comments

Today I have the privilege of introducing our blog readers to a new Books & Such agent, Barb Roose. Barb has been a part of our agency for seven years as a client of Rachelle Gardner. All we agents have …

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